Brother laser printer issues
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Hi, first time in this bit for me (I think?)!
Having dramas with my Brother L3230CDW printer... I'll start with today's and then add others if we can get it working!
I knew my black toner was getting low (warning on for ages!) but I basically only use it for printing a batch of preformatted job cards perhaps once a month.
It stopped working yesterday so I replaced the black cartridge today, (guy at officeworks assured me that I didn't need to spend $550 (!!!!) replacing all 4 cartridges if I'm printing B/W.
Just installed the new black toner, printer is still saying replace toner cartridge (CYAN & YELLOW)
My document is black&white... Is there ANY way to make this bloody thing work??
ETA I have gone into printer settings and told it to print B/W, it now printed one side of a single sheet then stopped, again telling me to replace cartridge..
I'm at my wits end with this, any ideas please?
Having dramas with my Brother L3230CDW printer... I'll start with today's and then add others if we can get it working!
I knew my black toner was getting low (warning on for ages!) but I basically only use it for printing a batch of preformatted job cards perhaps once a month.
It stopped working yesterday so I replaced the black cartridge today, (guy at officeworks assured me that I didn't need to spend $550 (!!!!) replacing all 4 cartridges if I'm printing B/W.
Just installed the new black toner, printer is still saying replace toner cartridge (CYAN & YELLOW)
My document is black&white... Is there ANY way to make this bloody thing work??
ETA I have gone into printer settings and told it to print B/W, it now printed one side of a single sheet then stopped, again telling me to replace cartridge..
I'm at my wits end with this, any ideas please?
Edited by Tim the pool man on Saturday 23 August 16:04
wibble cb said:
I had this issue on a canon, it refused to print anything if one of the cartridges was low/out, regardless of wanting to only print BW, and having plenty of black ink….supremely annoying.
The frustrating thing is that it was printing the BW document fine until I replaced the black cartridge! I'd be surprised if I've used 1% of the colours compared to the black! In fact I wish I'd just bought a BW printer!My Epson inkjet is forever doing this. I don't know how it uses anything other than black ink because I'm generally only printing letters, show entry forms and the like, and they're usually all black, or mainly black. But if it manages to get rid of any of the other colours, it won't print until you replace it.
Pity, I thought Brother was a decent choice for when it finally breaks and I have to actually pick a replacement for it.
Pity, I thought Brother was a decent choice for when it finally breaks and I have to actually pick a replacement for it.
Full set of toner cartridges £40
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LxTek-MFC-L3750CDW-MFC-L3...
Will take the stress out of it all, and yu'll barely notice a difference. I run my business running 2 colour Brother lasers. Only time they've ever seen a Brother cartridge was when new. I print orders and bulky manuals.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LxTek-MFC-L3750CDW-MFC-L3...
Will take the stress out of it all, and yu'll barely notice a difference. I run my business running 2 colour Brother lasers. Only time they've ever seen a Brother cartridge was when new. I print orders and bulky manuals.
Griffith4ever said:
Full set of toner cartridges £40
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LxTek-MFC-L3750CDW-MFC-L3...
Will take the stress out of it all, and yu'll barely notice a difference. I run my business running 2 colour Brother lasers. Only time they've ever seen a Brother cartridge was when new. I print orders and bulky manuals.
Cheers I'll have a look. Meanwhile I went a bought a BW printer as I needed to continue working! A full set (Black and 3 colours) was going to cost me over $600!!https://www.amazon.co.uk/LxTek-MFC-L3750CDW-MFC-L3...
Will take the stress out of it all, and yu'll barely notice a difference. I run my business running 2 colour Brother lasers. Only time they've ever seen a Brother cartridge was when new. I print orders and bulky manuals.
I eventually trawled through the Brother website and found that contrary to what I was told by Officeworks it will NOT print in BW if a colour cartridge is empty!

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